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The Crumbling Space Around Me

October 10, 2025 R J Schwartz 0

These crumbling walls whisper an endless loop of static each night Recorded voices, some once human, others generated by the

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All for the Love of a Lady

September 11, 2024 Ann Carr 3

Introduction ‘All for the Love of a Lady’ reflects a more traditional time when life had a slower pace.

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On One Terrible Night: The Family Well

November 8, 2024 Jamie Lee Hamann 0

ON ONE TERRIBLE NIGHT By Jamie Lee Hamann CHAPTER ONE: THE FAMILY WELL 1.) a.) “Alfonso will be out

Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Poetry Skeptic

July 11, 2016September 27, 2016 Melissa Hougard 3304 Views 20 Comments acronyms, humor, language, skeptic, words, writing poetry

For the poetry skeptic… I hear the click of your tongue a poem, you say… another one?

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I’ve Always Had a Fantasy

July 11, 2016September 26, 2016 Rasma Raisters 2247 Views 12 Comments barbecues, cowboys, fantasies, horses, texas

I’ve always had a fantasy … I’ve always had a fantasy, of waltzing across

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Diana

July 10, 2016July 10, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2956 Views 10 Comments caring, Diana, difference, humility, poem, tribute

Her sweet countenance befitted her benevolence, her sheer humility in all her undertakings, and no matter the circumstance, she arose

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The End of a Life

July 10, 2016September 1, 2016 EdF 2766 Views 6 Comments dedicated, family death, Heaven, poem, remembering, sorrow

The End of a Life Slight of shoulders and yet strong of heart of spirit of soul I take those shoulders now

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Velocity

July 9, 2016September 12, 2016 John Hansen 3958 Views 13 Comments haste, impatience, rushing, Speed, velocity

Definition of Velocity velocity vɪˈlɒsɪti/ noun *the speed of something in a given direction. “the velocities of the emitted particles”

Poetry Romantic Poetry

Let’s Smile at One Another

July 8, 2016July 8, 2016 Rasma Raisters 2947 Views 10 Comments love, poems, poetry, smiles, stars, summer nights

Let’s Smile … Let’s smile at one another, as we count the stars at night. These nights of magic –

Free Verse Poetry

Woven

July 7, 2016September 30, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1864 Views 2 Comments art, beauty, Bedouin, poem, wool, woven

Woven Woven by deft hands, old weathered hands, that know this dance, this purpose that lingers in the blood, generations

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Within the Folds

July 6, 2016September 28, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1854 Views 2 Comments eternity, folds, intention, life, omniscient, poem

Within the Folds Within the folds of a timeless collapsing of space, all is reduced to a single point,

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The Pulse

July 6, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2368 Views 4 Comments dreams, future, life, past, poem, present

The Pulse … At rest with all that’s come and gone, I sift through what has stretched me furthest,

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Puddles

July 6, 2016September 30, 2016 Tony DeLorger 4834 Views 4 Comments darkness, fleeting, grey, poem, puddles, reflection winter

Puddles Puddles, like miniature lakes reflect the parted sky, as blue struggles with full grey plumes, like cracks in

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